Dmitri Nikolayevich Cheryshev (; born 11 May 1969) is a Russian professional
football
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manager and a former
forward. He is the manager of Tajikistani club
Ravshan Kulob.
During his 16-year senior career, he was mainly associated with
Dynamo Moscow
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(four seasons) and
Sporting de Gijón
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(five). He was nicknamed the ''
Bullet
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from Gorki'', due to his speed.
Club career
Born in
Gorky,
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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,
Soviet Union
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, Cheryshev began his professional career with
Khimik Dzerzhinsk in the
third division, joining
Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod in the
second level in 1990. He played four seasons in the
Russian Premier League
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with
Dynamo Moscow
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, helping the
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club to two top-three finishes and winning the 1995
Russian Cup.
In
1996
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, Cheryshev scored a career-best 17 goals with Dynamo, who eventually finished fourth. Subsequently, he moved to
Spain
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and signed for
Sporting de Gijón
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, where he would share teams with several compatriots;
he made his debut in
La Liga
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on 17 November 1996, playing 30 minutes in a 2–4 home loss against
Athletic Bilbao
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– the
Asturians
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would be relegated at the end of the
1997–98 season.
Cheryshev continued to net regularly for Sporting in his
division two spell. He ended his career also in the country, after one-season stints with
Burgos
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(second tier) and
Real Aranjuez (amateurs).
International career
Cheryshev made his debut for
CIS on 25 January 1992, in a
friendly with the
United States
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. During four years he was also
capped for
Russia
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, scoring his only international goal in a
UEFA Euro 1996
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qualifier against
San Marino
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.
Coaching career
Cheryshev worked as a manager with
Real Madrid
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during two years, being in charge of one of its children's teams.
After acting briefly as
director of football
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with
Sibir Novosibirsk, he was appointed head coach at
Volga Nizhny Novgorod, helping the team
narrowly retain their top-flight status.
In late October 2014, Cheryshev was appointed as manager of
Kazakhstan Premier League
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side
Irtysh Pavlodar
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on a two-year contract. He was relieved of his duties in May of the following year, being immediately signed to
Unai Emery
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's staff at
Sevilla
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Seville ...
.
[
On 3 June 2016, Cheryshev was named coach of Mordovia Saransk, recently ]relegated
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from the Premier League
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. Ahead of the 2018–19 season he was hired by Nizhny Novgorod
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, leading them to the promotion play-offs but losing to Krylia Sovetov Samara. On 16 October 2019, he left by mutual consent.
On 21 September 2021, Cheryshev was named head coach of AFC Eskilstuna
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in Sweden, he was their coach for three hours until he left his first and only training - the barrier of language was a big problem and he felt he couldn't change that much in the club as he wanted.
On 9 August 2022, Cheryshev was hired as the manager of Santa Coloma in Andorra. Under his management, Santa Coloma became the first Andorran club to win two qualifying rounds in UEFA competition (2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
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).
Personal life
Cheryshev's son, Denis, is also a footballer. A winger, he played youth football for two of the teams his father represented in Spain, and also spent several seasons with Real Madrid.
Career statistics
Club
International
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Managerial statistics
Honours
Dynamo Moscow
* Russian Cup: 1994–95
Individual
*Top 33 players year-end list: 1992, 1994, 1996
References
External links
RussiaTeam biography and profile
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1969 births
Footballers from Nizhny Novgorod
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Russia men's international footballers
Dual internationalists (men's football)
FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk players
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players
FC Dynamo Moscow players
Sporting de Gijón players
Burgos CF footballers
Soviet Second League players
Soviet First League players
Russian Premier League players
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Russian football managers
Real Madrid CF non-playing staff
FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod managers
FC Irtysh Pavlodar managers
Sevilla FC non-playing staff
FC Mordovia Saransk managers
FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod managers
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl managers
Russian Premier League managers
Kazakhstan Premier League managers
Russian First League managers
Russian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Kazakhstan
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate football managers in Andorra
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Andorra
Expatriate football managers in Tajikistan
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Tajikistan
20th-century Russian sportsmen